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Dental Assistant: “So you were in Mexico.”
Dentist: “Yes. We’ve been there three times. But it’s changed so much.
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Dentist: Everything is so expensive now.”
Dental Assistant: “Oh, I know. It’s like they noticed all the tourists and got smart.”
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Dentist: “Have you been to Hawaii?”
Dental Assistant: “Yeah. We were there last winter.”
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Dentist: “I could use a little suction here…..’
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Dental Assistant: “It was soooo humid, though…”
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Dentist: “Well, it’s the tropics.”
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Dental Assistant: “Oh I know – it gets humid here, but it’s not the same – they have a wet humid.”
Dental Assistant: “Ours is a dry humid.”
Me: “cackgorglegorglehack….. ”
Dentist: “Are you ok?”
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Yup, seen that, we have dry water here as well…. gives you the dry heeves when you drink to much.
And you have to pay too.
It is expensive, but in a cheap sort of way.
Ok, so a tape recorder was going while I was in the chair yesterday morning.
So I said, Port Isabelle is interesting. You know, on the Gulf near Padre Island, or you can cross over just south of Brownsville Texas.
Well, we just go to the Pcific side, the dental assistant said. Oh I see, I said, and then they got busy with drills and suction so I couldn’t talk anymore.
Damn, I didn’t have the chance to impress these wealthy people with insights about the Atlantic side of Mexico. Maybe only the poor go to East side of the country.
Then, the dentist was in the next room chatting to the next victim, while I was being victimized a second time at the front counter where they seriously drill your Master Card.
You know dentist’s fees are set by Association. I mentally added up my cost for the hour, doubled it to include the person next door who was done in the same hour and multiplied that by eight hours.
No wonder the dental assistant has been to Mexico, how many times? I forget what she said exactly. The drill you know.
Reminds me of when I took my dog to the vet. Their rates are fixed by an Association as well you know.
He exrayed my dog’s leg, put a bandage on it. [I took it off two days later. It’s all the poor dog could stand.] The bill was $519 for less than one hour of work.
Is there something wrong with this fixed price habit? Are we all sheep because we accept that there is no competition with these elegant, never discuss fees, people?
Aw heck. Now I just made a whole bunch more enemies. There is a doctor here,[doctor annual incomes are public domain], who makes over a million annually. Is anyone really worth that much?
Oh Oh, Now everybody hates me. 73s TG
There is no fiction in the comment above. It is all true. I did just get upper right molar work done. I and my Master Card were both drilled. The *professionals* did discuss both Mexico and Hawii. I could scan & post the bill as evidence. Freaky? I thought so. 73s TG
I just remember the oral surgeon telling his assistant, “this is harder than I thought it’d be” while removing my wisdom teeth. There followed a horrible loud crunching noise. [shudder]
Kate why are you trusting your dental health to such waterheads??? I thought Saskabush soviet health left you to fend for yourself in the evil private health sector for a dentist….I mean as long as yer paying you may as well get one who hires assistants with IQs higher than an egg plant.
Wonder how many people realize why the British have a rep for having bad teeth.
It’s because British dentistry is socialized by law, like the Canadian health-care system. No freedom of choice. Poor service. Etc.
Figure it out.
“A dry humid,” huh? Sounds like Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate.” You let a Democrat work on your mouth?
TonyGuitar, I sell businesses for a living and a lot of the buyers I deal with are Dentists. Occaisionally we get accountants and lawyers, but very rarely do we get doctors. The dentists make far more than any other professional. The ones I’m working with make around $350K+ per year and take some pretty exotic vacations with their entire families. Doctors OTOH don’t make nearly the same money unless they’re a specialist.
Dry humid … That’s today’s laugh.
Dental Hygenists and Assistant really only know one form of speech and it goes like this … and it doesn’t matter which one you see you get the same speech.
DH/DA: Oh I see it’s been 6 months since you were last here and have you been brushing and flossing at least twice a day?
ME: Brushing yes, not so much with the flossing.
DH/DA Oh you really should be flossing after every meal blah blah blah blah floss …. blah blah blah blah floss …. blah blah blah – perhaps we should schedule you every three months.
Me: (thought not said) Not bloody likely – you’re a sadistic brute and I’m only here because my employer pays for this and I really should use some of those benefits I’m taxed on.
Had a 3 channel root canal about a month ago, $1000.00, Ive paid 300.00 on it and they will get the remaining $700.00 a little each month as I can afford it.
$150.00 to pull it and $1000.00 to save it,I asked the dentist to give me an estimate to make me look like a hollywood movie star and it was $10000.00 and thats just my teeth and then theres my hair or rather lack of it, quite frankly Ive given up and decided to drop out of society and become a recluse, I cant afford on $10.00/hr to be part of mainstream society, so piss off world and all you money grubbing assholes.
The phenomenon of insurance generated price increases is beginning to hit the veterinary profession, especially in urban centers.
Surgery costs have doubled and tripled in just the past two or so years – its going to force a lot of breeders to give it up.
Insurance , as Thomas Sowell says is the catalyst for huge price increases in all forms.
When someone else is paying the freight then you don’t care what it costs.
Hey, also shouldn’t Associations that fix prices be subject to the Combines Act.
That’s a really depressing anecdote. But it’s a kind of cheery depression.